Week 24: End of the Kirtland period; revelations in Missouri, 1838

D&C 111–112, 114–115, 117–120

27 April 2017

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Additional reading and links

H. Michael Marquardt, “Martin Harris: The Kirtland Years, 1831–1870,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 1–40. This article examines Martin Harris’ defection from the Church in Kirtland and his remaining years there until he came to Utah in 1870.

Stephen C. Harper, “The Tithing of My People,” Church History: Revelations in Context, last modified 13 January 2016. Harper, a historian for the Church History Department, explains how the Saints in Missouri understood how to calculate “one-tenth of all their interest annually” as tithing (D&C 119:4).

E. Jay Bell, “The Windows of Heaven Revisited: The 1899 Tithing Reformation,” Journal of Mormon History 20, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 45–83. The 1963 Church film “The Windows of Heaven” depicts President Lorenzo Snow promising the Saints of drought-stricken St. George that it would rain if they paid their tithing. While President Snow did receive a revelation about the importance of renewed emphasis on tithing, and made inspired promises for paying tithes, he did not make a promise that paying tithing would bring rain to break the drought. Bell’s article investigates the origins of the folklore on which the film was based.

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Elder Boyd K. Packer, “The Least of These,” General Conference, October 2004. “I remember my servant Oliver Granger; behold, verily I say unto him that his name shall be had in sacred remembrance from generation to generation, forever and ever, saith the Lord” (D&C 117:12).

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